Lighter

A barge that once carried coal supplies along Ulster's waterways is now back on the Lagan Canal for the first time since 1946.
The Lagan lighter, built in 1871, is now moored close to the Lock Keeper's Cottage in south Belfast as the first stage in a major restoration programme.
For years it had lain half full of stagnant water at a marina on the River Shannon, until it was tracked down by Brian Cassells, president of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland. He had been asked by Castlereagh Borough Council to source one of the original lighters
A wonderful old "girl".